Abstract: A layout of five stroke shapes for inputting Chinese characters in a device is disclosed. The layout is Cross-shaped with relative positions of the five strokes being helpful to users knowledgeable in Chinese writing. Further, the layout arrangement is accompanied with a lyric which helps users remember and memorize the locations of the five strokes on the keypad. The relative locations of the five strokes are: Pie at the left of the cross, Dian at the right, Heng at the top, Zhe at the bottom, and Shu at the center. The lyric describes the shapes of the strokes and the relative locations of the strokes in the Cross-shaped configuration. For example, the lyric may be “left slash, right gash, upper over, lower turn with one down in the middle.” The lyric may have a tune to become a song and may be burned in a ROM of a device, such as a mobile phone.

Abstract: An accurate speech recognition system operable for hand-held devices having relatively low computational power and memory requirements, low power consumption, simple operating systems, low weight and low cost. This invention provides accurate speech recognition for electronic devices with low processing power and limited memory storage capability. Basic accuracy is achieved by the utilization of specialized and/or individualized dictionary databases comprising several thousand words appropriate for specific uses such as website locating and professional/commercial lexicons. Further accuracy is achieved by first recognizing individual words and then matching aggregations of those words with word string databases. Still further accuracy is achieved by the use of processors and databases that are located at the telecommunications sites. Almost total accuracy is achieved by a scrolling selection system of candidate words.

Abstract: This invention is a speech recognition server system for implementation in a communications network having a plurality of clients, at least one site communication server, at least one contents server, and at least one communications gateway server, said speech recognition server system comprising a site map including a table of site address words; a speech server daemon, communicable with the wireless communications gateway server and the site communications server, for managing speech information; a voice recognition server, communicable with said speech server daemon, for speech recognition of the speech information; a site map manager, communicable with said site map, for speech recognition of the site address words in said site map; a speaker model, communicable with said site map manager and said voice recognition server, for speech recognition of the site address words in said site map; and a site selector, communicable with said voice recognition server, said speech server daemon, and said site map, fo